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9.Comment on the following:
1. The rich accept superiority as the natural state of things.
2. Most of our lives end as a compromise – it was a compromise that
Anson’s life began.
3. Mutual affection starts with meaningless statements – the emotional
content that gradually comes to fill them grows up not out of the
words but out of its enormous seriousness.

III

1.Transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.
1. communion 11. boisterous
2. to make things go 12. to be high in the social scale
3. to spree 13. in Dutch
4. to be on her terms 14. infractible
5. the scale on which they lived 15. under the weather
6. dizzy 16. to brood over
7. to occur to smb 17. to establish an advantage over
8. to reconcile oneself to the smb
fact 18. to make promises
9. verbal inhibition 19. humility
10. her lips tightened with
distaste

2.Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.
Delightful, naive, asleep, confused, agitated, stubborn, sober, hilarious,
imprudent, quaint, dreadful.

3.Answer the following questions.
1. What and whom did Paula and her mother visit?
2. What did Paula and Anson decide about marriage?
3. What happened to Anson before the dinner-party?
4. What was Anson’s behaviour like at the dinner-party?
5. What did Mrs. Legendre talk with Anson about?
6. What caused Paula and Anson’s separation?

4.Which sentences are true?
1. Paula and Anson’s immediate marriage was discussed.
2. Paula’s cousin had met Anson and wasn’t surprised when he
mumbled his strange information.